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lubridate (version 0.2.5)

Make dealing with dates a little easier

Description

Lubridate makes it easier to work with dates and times by providing functions to identify and parse date-time data, extract and modify components of a date-time (years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds), perform accurate math on date-times, handle time zones and Daylight Savings Time. Lubridate has a consistent, memorable syntax, that makes working with dates fun instead of frustrating.

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install.packages('lubridate')

Monthly Downloads

714,919

Version

0.2.5

License

GPL

Maintainer

Garrett Grolemund

Last Published

May 12th, 2011

Functions in lubridate (0.2.5)

is.POSIXt

Is x a POSIXct or POSIXlt object?
week

Get/set weeks component of a date-time.
yday

Get/set days component of a date-time.
ms

Create a period with the specified number of minutes and seconds...
duration

Description of time span classes in lubridate.
dst

Get Daylight Savings Time indicator of a date-time.
leap_year

Is a year a leap year?
add_epoch_to_date

Add epochs to dates...
lubridate

Dates and times made easy with lubridate...
is.duration

Is x a duration object?
DateCoercion

Convert every date method we know about to POSIXlt and POSIXct...
with_tz

Get date-time in a different time zone...
is.timespan

Is x a length of time?
new_epoch

Create an epoch object...
make_difftime

Makes a difftime object from a given number of seconds...
hm

Create a period with the specified number of hours and minutes...
is.difftime

Is x a difftime object?
ymd_hms

Parse dates that have hours, minutes, or seconds elements...
month

Get/set months component of a date-time.
is.period

Is x a period object?
int_start

Access and change the start date of an interval...
ceiling_date

Round date-times up.
as.period

Change an object to a period.
second

Get/set seconds component of a date-time.
floor_date

Round date-times down.
is.instant

Is x a date-time object?
ymd

Parse dates according to the order that year, month, and day elements appear...
origin

1970-01-01 GMT...
sundays

Quickly create common epoch objects...
as.interval

Change an object to an interval.
reclass_date

Convenience method to reclass dates post-modification.
hms

Create a period with the specified hours, minutes, and seconds...
parse_date

Change dates into a POSIXct format...
seconds

Quickly create relative timespans.
force_tz

Replace time zone to create new date-time...
wday

Get/set days component of a date-time.
tz

Get/set time zone component of a date-time.
new_duration

Create a duration object.
int_end

Access and change the end date of an interval...
minute

Get/set minutes component of a date-time.
is.Date

Is x a Date object?
add_dates

Adding date-time objects...
now

The current time...
hour

Get/set hours component of a date-time.
dseconds

Quickly create exact time spans.
am

Does date time occur in the am or pm?
decimal_date

Converts a date to a decimal of its year.
pretty.dates

Computes attractive axis breaks for date-time data...
round_date

Rounding for date-times.
new_difftime

Create a difftime object.
today

The current date...
as.duration

Change an object to a duration (difftime).
DateUpdate

Changes the components of a date object...
lakers

Lakers 2008-2009 basketball data set...
is.interval

Is x an interval object?
year

Get/set years component of a date-time.
new_interval

Create an interval object.
subtract_dates

Subtracting date-time objects...
new_period

Create a period object.